Train diverted after passenger dressed as Star Wars character reported to police for carrying ‘firearm’

10 comments

1. No need to panic. Stormtroopers are notorious for their ability to miss.

2. Bollocks to the *Star Wars* guns, check out the ones on the rozza!

3. he’s hamming it up a bit. openly carrying an object replicating a firearm will always risk this response. Not a big ask to chuck it in a shopping bag.

4. So if I put a plastic shell round my gun, and dress like a twat, I can open carry?

5. That picture further down looks more like Bungle than a wookie.

6. It’s funny until somebody does a terrorism dressed as Jar Jar Binks and nobody thinks it’s real.

7. He’s being a bit of a prat to be honest. It’s pretty common knowledge that if you are going to cosplay as a character with a weapon, the weapon stays concealed until you’re at the event. Especially so when the weapon is a type of firearm. 

8. You pretty frequently get people in Mandalorian armour on the DLR and Elizabeth Line for MCM Comic Con London or other events there. But they don’t tend to carry weapons like that out in the open.

9. The weapon was a toy, they don’t even let a quiet one dress up anymore.

10. It’s the UK, they don’t know what a gun really looks like.